United States Government Publishing Office publisher pbl distributor dst United States Government Accountability Office Health, Education, and Human Services Division author aut Government Organization text government publication eng GAOREPORTS Legislative Agency Publications gao legislative 2010-08-12 U.S. Government Printing Office 1998-11-04 monographic deposited born digital 44 p. GA 1.13:HEHS-99-15 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-HEHS-99-15 P0b002ee18039bb79 f:he99015 DGPO 2010-08-12 2011-03-24 GAOREPORTS-HEHS-99-15 machine generated eng fdlp REPORT GAOREPORTS-HEHS-99-15 HEHS-99-15 Vocational education Youth employment programs Contract performance Training utilization State-administered programs Sole source procurement Labor statistics Education or training costs Program evaluation Performance measures DOL Job Corps Program Letter Report HEHS The Labor Department spends about $1 billion on the Jobs Corps program each year to job train severely disadvantaged youths. Labor has several efforts to foster the program's employer and community linkages to help ensure that its vocational training is appropriate to local labor markets and relevant to employers' needs. However, Jobs Corps' data on the extent to which participants complete vocational training and obtain training-related jobs are misleading and overstate the program's results. GAO found that only 14 percent of program participants actually completed all the requirements of their vocational training curricula. At five Job Corps centers GAO visited, the validity of about 41 percent of the job placements reported by Labor to be training-related was questionable. At one center, Labor reported that several participants receiving clerical training had gotten jobs as bank tellers, even though they actually worked at fast food restaurants, retail stores, and a gas station. GAO also found that about one third of Job Corps' vocational training has been provided under sole source contracts awarded to national labor and business organizations for more than 30 years. In GAO's opinion, Labor has not adequately justified procuring these training services noncompetitively. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-HEHS-99-15/html/GAOREPORTS-HEHS-99-15.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-HEHS-99-15/pdf/GAOREPORTS-HEHS-99-15.pdf GAO/HEHS-99-15 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-HEHS-99-15 Letter Report GAO/HEHS-99-15; Job Corps: Links With Labor Market Improved but Vocational; Vocational education Youth employment programs Contract performance Training utilization State-administered programs Sole source procurement Labor statistics Education or training costs Program evaluation Performance measures DOL Job Corps Program